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• Webinar: What is Access (and preview Access 2013)

  5 Nov 2012

  Access helps you store and track just about any kind of information--inventory, contacts, business processes, and more. In this week's webinar, you'll learn how to organize and manage your data, plus we'll preview the latest version of Access, including a big new feature. Can't view this video? It's...
• Moving and backing up your Access 2013 web apps

  27 Sep 2012

  This post was written by Bob Piper, a Program Manager on the Access team. When files live on your computer's hard drive, there's a risk that they could be damaged, lost, corrupted, or deleted. To protect against this, most savvy businesses make copies of important files in separate locations. In a similar...
• Moving data forward into Access 2013

  25 Sep 2012

  This post was written by Gary Devendorf, a Program Manager on the Access team. The accompanying video features Doug Taylor, also a Program Manager. Access 2013 is all about enabling you to build data-centric business apps on the web. Frequently, the data you care about—a customer list, a product...
• 3 awesome Access 2013 Web Apps you can build right now

  14 Sep 2012

  Today's guest post is from Juan Soto and Ben Clothier , both Access MVPs working at IT Impact, Inc. who have been testing out the new Access 2013. To learn more about them, visit their blog at AccessExperts.net/blog . Access 2013 preview has launched, and we wanted to share our impressions and ideas...
• 4 ways to create business apps with Access 2013

  20 Aug 2012

  There are many ways to build useful apps to run your business with Access 2013. You can download an app via the Office Store, build an app using a Web App Template, or create a Custom Web App. You also have the ability to make a desktop database, just like you always have in Access. Each method offers...
• Automatically relink Microsoft Access tables

  3 Aug 2012

  ( Guest blogger Patrick Wood, an Access MVP, is the founder of Gaining Access Technologies , a software company specializing in working with SQL Azure and Access. He also founded Microsoft Access and SQL Azure Information Cente r for developers. For more information, contact patwood@gainingaccess.net...
• Introducing Access 2013

  20 Jul 2012

  The Access team is proud to introduce the Access 2013 public preview, which will make it easier than ever for everyday people to organize the data in their lives and businesses using Access apps. On this blog, you'll be able to learn about the improvements included in this new release. Access has always...
• An Updated Data Model Has a Choral Arts Group Singing

  21 Nov 2011

  If you've ever inherited a database that's home-grown, you probably can relate to Donna O'Connor, former Director at Choral Arts , a non-profit emsemble of singers. When she started her job, its database was a mess: it had been built up over time by a succession of directors, and had no plan or data...
• Date functions part 1: some common scenarios

  15 Sep 2011

  This is the first of a series of posts about date functions. Many of you search Office.com for help using date functions in Access. Perhaps you want to select some portion of a date (e.g., the year). Maybe you want to format the display of date/time data, or find the difference between dates. In this...
• Query Criteria Part 3: prompting for input by using a parameter

  1 Sep 2011

  In part 2 of this series, we considered using LIKE and wildcards in query criteria to find inexact matches. Good stuff - but what if you could get the query to apply criteria that are supplied when it is run? What if you could make a query ask for input? Good news! You can make a query ask for input...
• Access and SharePoint: a look at integration points from 2003 to 2010

  31 Jul 2011

  For several releases, Access and SharePoint have grown together, providing increasingly more compelling functionality - from fairly simple data sources through to web databases that run in a browser. Ben Clothier at http://accessexperts.net has a two-part review of the evolution of Access working with...
• Lists unlimited: let users add new values

  20 Jul 2011

  It happens all the time: there's a list of choices but it doesn't have the choice you want. No worries! You can enable folks to add items to a lookup field. I've listed below some relevant tips from the community and the main MSDN topic on the subject. Justin Ferrel offers a how-to on using VBA to add...
• Not all equals signs are created equal

  2 May 2011

  If you've ever played the guessing game about where to put (or where not to put) an equals sign in an Access macro, this post is for you. The choice depends on whether you're dealing with an expression or a string, and getting it right is especially important if you plan to publish your database to Access...